Final Grades for the Top Stars from the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season

NASCAR is a sport of teams! Too often, that's forgotten. The driver may be the most visible member of the team, but it takes a solid group of people behind him to make wins and championships happen. In grading the Sprint Cup season's top stars, we took a look back—to Daytona where the sport's most popular driver won, kicking off his best season; to the thrill of Kevin Harvick's Darlington win in April that ended his mini-slump. Jeff Gordon's late-summer Brickyard 400 win was a highlight that led into the most exciting 10-race Chase in the sport's history. And in many cases, teamwork made the difference between a good grade and a not-so-good one. Here they are, a dozen of the drivers we think were the best in the sport in 2014, an...

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